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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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As Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years, we focus this episode on Germany's new government and its chancellor, Olaf Scholz. We also debate the growing use of "Denglish" — a hybrid of German and English — among politicians. POLITICO's Andrew Gray and Matthew Karnitschnig explore expectations for the new government, particularly on foreign policy. And we feature some highlights from a live Twitter Spaces discussion among POLITICO reporters: Florian Eder and Hans von der Burchard look at how the coalition will tackle big EU issues and reveal some key behind-the-scenes operators in the chancellery. Then we broaden the lens to all of Europe and get the inside scoop from Senior Reporter Joshua Posaner on POLITICO's new list of the 28 most powerful people shaping Europe. You can read the full list here and watch the P28 event, which included interviews with Frans Timmermans, executive vice president for the European Green Deal at the European Commission, and with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization. Our special guest is German language critic Peter Littger, whose latest book on the Denglish phenomenon is "Hello in the round!" He discusses the pervasive use of this hybrid of German and English among politicians and the impact it has on society. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	EU Confidential gets started right after this.
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0:24.9	Very good, Minister, dear Ola Schultz, I know of his own
0:28.6	experience that it's a bewegener moment is in this
0:31.8	act to belled to be able to be. I wish you, from heart,
0:35.4	all this good at this work and always a good hand for our land.
0:41.4	And there she goes, one last time.
0:44.3	And now it's over to Olaf.
0:46.7	That was, of course, Angela Merkel, bowing out after 16 years as German Chancellor.
0:52.5	And handing over to Olaf Schultz, who was elected by the
0:55.8	Bundestag as her successor on Wednesday.
0:58.6	I think it is a very special, Bundeskanzler this Republic to be.
1:03.8	Welcome to EU Confidential, the number one European politics podcast.
1:08.2	I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels. It's a historic week for Germany
1:13.8	and for Europe as the Merkel era ends and a new one begins. So we have a Germany-focused episode
1:20.2	for you. You'll hear from a top team of political journalists on what we can expect from the new
1:25.6	coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals.
1:29.2	We'll also reflect a little more on Angela Merkel's legacy.
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